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Amazon said Monday that its Amazon Web Services (AWS) region in Bahrain has been disrupted amid the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, marking the second time in a month that its operations have been affected by the war in the region.
According to a Reuters report, the disruption was caused by drone activity in the area, an Amazon spokesperson said following a Reuters inquiry. As of Monday night, AWS had not updated its status page to reflect the impact.
It remains unclear whether the Bahrain facility was directly hit by a drone attack or whether the disruption was caused by nearby strikes, the report said.
The company said it is helping customers migrate to alternate AWS regions while services recover, but did not provide details on the extent of the damage or how long the disruption is expected to last.
"As this situation evolves and, as we have advised before, we request those with workloads in the affected regions continue to migrate to other locations," Amazon said in a statement Monday night.
Regional escalation in the Middle East has continued since the United States and Israel launched a joint offensive on Iran on Feb. 28, which has so far killed more than 1,340 people, including then-Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
Iran has retaliated with repeated drone and missile strikes targeting Israel and Gulf countries, including Bahrain, hosting U.S. military assets.
The Strait of Hormuz has also been effectively disrupted since early March. Around 20 million barrels of oil normally pass through it daily, and the disruption has driven up shipping costs and pushed global oil prices higher.
AWS is Amazon’s cloud computing unit and is critical for the operation of many major websites and government systems. It is also the company’s main driver of profits.
The disruption is the second instance of drone activity affecting AWS' Bahrain region since the start of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. Earlier this month, AWS reported that facilities in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates had lost power and that the company was working to recover services, including transferring computing workloads to other regions.
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